Pre-covid I had actually taken the decision to avoid MAN completely because of the dreadful experience with clearing security... despite (then) living only 20 minutes from MAN... It was getting to the point where I was almost having to completely unpack everything from my bags to avoid the added delays of long secondary inspections/scans... and so were most of my fellow travelers... and that was creating long queues and an overall disharmonious experience...

I have no idea why MAN have mandated this, or what it is about the systems at MAN that mean they need to do this, but I have not experienced this level of, well, scrutiny, I guess, at any other airport that I have been through... At the end of the day, they need to do what they need to do... and MAN may very well argue their way is the right way... But as a TSA-PRE member, it comes as a bit of a shock to be having to unpack literally even the smallest items from a bag...

As I say, because of this (and this alone) I took to driving to Heathrow rather than transferring down... A shame, because the BA team at MAN were a lovely bunch of people who took the time to get to know the regulars...

ps - edited to add: I had (before bailing out) also experienced quite a lot of (what I perceived to be) generally discourteous and unhelpful attitude from staff at security at MAN for many years. Not everybody, no, of course not, and, no, I would not like to be doing their job...